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Questions in science, technology, engineering, math and History.

Keep track and see how well you do up against the best junior high school students in Alabama.

Now here's your host, Mike Royer.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome once again to the Alabama Scholars Bowl, a program you can see regularly here on Alabama public television.

And I want to thank all the folks here at AP for being so welcoming to us and to the students who come from all over the state to compete.

We are glad you're with us today.

And we welcome into our studio the students from Barton Academy down in Mobile, Alabama.

It's good to have the students from that spine school with us and from Hewitt Trussville Middle School.

They join us as well.

And we're glad you're with us, too.

Will meet the players at the midway point of our program.

As you know, from watching every week and I know you do.

We begin with 20 questions for the students.

Whichever team answers correctly, we'll get a bonus question.

We have a lightning round in the middle and then some rapid fire questions at the end that are worth 20 points each.

So we've got a lot to do in a short amount of time.

Are you all ready to get started?

Yes.

All right.

We want to thank our judges, Sharon Daly and Claudette Smith.

Kate Wilson, Christopher Archer is here.

Mike Ousley is our executive producer.

Let's get started.

Question number one, the Tornillo River forms the border between Sweden and, what Scandinavian country?

Whose capital is Helsinki?

Bentley, Norway.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer for me?

Garrett Finland.

Finland is the right answer.

This is a bonus question for you.

Barton Academy.

The reply More.

Wait is repeated by Giles Corey while being crushed to death for accusations of being a witch in what Arthur Miller play about the Salem Witch trials.

The Crucible of the Crucible is right?

Correct.

Answer Next question for both teams in what organelles where a P and E sites are found does protein synthesis occur?

Yes.

Looking Bentley.

Ribosome.

Ribosome is right.

Bonus question for you.

Hewitt Trussville.

Audrey Azula is the current director General of what agency of the United Nations that designates World Heritage sites.

Give me an idea what that's called.

Anyone?

It is UNESCO's.

It's UNESCO's, which stands for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.

But everybody knew that.

Next question for everyone.

The Marquee st Everyman.

Everyman is killed by gas.

Parr In what Charles Dickens novel set during the French Revolution, whose opening declares it was the best of times.

It was the worst of times.

Yes.

Buzzing in I'm looking, Greta, we're of two cities.

No, that's incorrect.

Do you have an answer?

Hewitt?

Yes, Charlie.

A Christmas Carol?

No.

It is a tale of two cities.

You were thinking correctly.

Next question for everyone in what Gunter Grass Greater Grass novel does Oscar Maser at own the title instrument made of tin, which you often beat as a child?

Yes, sir.

Some probably need a little more steel drum.

That's incorrect.

Q Would you have an answer?

It is the white Bentley symbol?

Nope.

It's the Tin Drum.

Tin drum is what they wanted.

Next, Stephen Douglas Freeport Doctrine was created as a result of what Supreme Court case that ruled that living in a free state did not entitle an enslaved man to his freedom because he was not a citizen by the case.

Yes, David, the Free Man doctrine.

No, that's not it.

Anyone else?

That's Dred Scott versus Sanford with that case.

Next, what poet described a luminary clock against the sky in acquainted with the night.

And two paths diverged in a yellow wood in the road.

Not taken.

Who is that?

Robert Frost.

Robert Frost is correct.

Well done, Kate.

Bonus for your team.

L m will go gams.

Amalgams contain what element with the symbol h g the shares its name.

Bentley.

Mercury.

Mercury is right.

I just gave them the bonus question.

Work on that.

Proceed on.

Okay.

In Homer's the next question.

This is for everyone in Homer's The Iliad.

What hero avenges the death of his friend Pedro.

Plus, by killing Hector.

Gretta.

Achilles.

Achilles is the right answer.

Bonus for you, Barton Academy.

A supply line along the sacred way was secured by Philippe Tan.

During what battle?

In the French city during World War One.

What battle was that?

D-Day.

Nope.

The battle was Verdun.

The Battle of Verdun.

Both teams.

Now what?

German composer used text from Schiller's Ode to Joy for part of his choral Gretta Beethoven.

Beethoven is correct.

Bonus for you.

The Sputnik Planitia is a feature of what object discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, which was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006.

Pluto.

Pluto is right over camp.

Hold on.

That's a that was a bonus question for your team.

did you know the answer?

Yes.

Yes.

Swear you knew the answer you promised you needed.

All right, Pluto, You got it.

Now, toss up for both teams.

What title group travels half a league.

Happily, half a league onward in the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem about their charge.

What's it called?

Yes, sir.

No.

Hewitt.

Anybody?

The charge of the Light Brigade is what we wanted there.

Next question.

What biblical figure was the father of Ham, Chim and Japeth, and was tasked with carrying two of each animals on his ark?

Yes.

Bentley.

Noah.

Noah is right.

Bonus question.

Author Saul Bellow was born in what?

French speaking Canadian city that is also home.

This is a bonus question over here.

That's okay.

I'm going to finish reading it for you.

Hewitt.

Canadian City, that is also home to the Inner Angels Canadiens hockey team, Ontario.

I know that's incorrect.

It is Montreal.

Montreal is what we wanted.

Next question on what items can the enchantments, looting and sharpness be applied?

Swords is right, Kate.

Bonus for your team.

The Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best book written in what language?

The native language of Britain in the United States.

And it is Bentley English.

English is right.

And that was your bonus question.

That's.

Toss up both teams.

What Scientists demonstrated that there are two distinct types of radiation, alpha and beta and discovered the nucleus in his gold foil experiment.

Who was that scientist?

Anyone?

Yes.

Sarah Tesla.

No.

David Curie.

Nope.

It was Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford.

Next.

What?

He wrote.

Who accidentally killed his grandfather?

Creasy.

Crisis with a discus.

Use a reflective shield to slay Medusa.

David Perseus.

Perseus is right.

Bonus for Hewitt Planck's constant times particle frequency gives the energy of what particle The quanta of light.

Photons.

What's the answer?

Photon.

Photon is the right answer.

Well done.

Next question.

Linus Pauling advocated for megadoses of what compound a vitamin often found in citrus fruits.

And I don't see it.

Cash.

Citrus.

It's found in citrus fruits.

That's not the right vitamin C badly.

That's right.

Vitamin C is correct.

Your bonus question.

The him.

Lord saved my people opens what czajkowski overture which is known for its dramatic volley of cannon fire.

No, this is a question here for Hewitt.

That was your bonus question.

Did you hear it?

Do you have an answer?

We don't.

Okay.

It's the 1812 overture.

Next question.

15.

This is a toss up for both teams.

Boss Tweed, who was depicted in many cartoons by Thomas Nest, was the leader of what political machine that ruled New York in the 19th and early 20th century.

And he won Tammany Hall.

Tammany Hall is the answer we wanted.

Moving on with four more questions in this round.

What goddess was tricked into eating pomegranate seeds?

Sarah Stephanie That is the right answer.

Bonus for you.

Barton Academy fleas that lived on rats were the carriers of the illness that began.

What, 14th century event that wiped out a third of Europe's population.

Black Plague.

Black Plague is right.

Well done.

Next.

Both times.

What man wrote the Gospel of Wealth and has namesake libraries in Pittsburgh funded by money made from the steel industry.

Who is that?

Yes.

Bentley.

Alexandria.

No.

Do you have an answer for me, Barton?

Yes, sir.

Carnegie is the right answer.

Bonus for you.

Rubisco is used in the Kelvin cycle, which is part of what process in which plants convert sunlight into energy.

And you don't have to buzz in the answers over there.

It's there.

If there is there bonus question.

Do you have an answer?

Photosynthesis?

That is correct.

You don't have to buzz in when it's your bonus question.

Couple more questions now.

What Asian country was once held was once led by the dictator Sigmund Sigmund Ree, and today is separated from its northern neighbor by the DMZ.

And it is Garrett Korea.

More information.

South Korea.

That's right.

Bonus question just for you.

What artist painting Disputa is on display in the stands D Raffaello, along with his better known painting of Greek scholars, the School of Athens.

What artist is that?

Do you know Michelangelo?

No, Rafael.

Rafael is the answer.

We wanted the Lateran Treaty was signed by what?

Leader of the Blackshirts who led Italy as a puppet state during World War Two.

And he won in a Bentley.

Mussolini.

Mussolini is correct.

Your bonus question for Hewitt Trussville, which constructs come in a bent type resembling a banana.

And are bonds in which electrons are shared as opposed to a ionic bonds?

Kelvin.

Say it again, Kelvin.

No, that's incorrect.

The right answer is covalent.

My pronounced that red tape.

Covalent.

Last question of this part of our round.

The battle of Kaddish saw mass use of white horse drawn vehicles that were used in namesake races.

Cash, chariot.

Chariot is right.

Last bonus question for your team Barton Academy.

The kingdom of Axum was located in what country?

Where highly Selassie ruled from Addis Ababa.

What country was that?

Saudi Arabia.

Ethiopia is what we wanted there.

Lay your buttons down.

We're going to tell our viewers at home what our lightning round choices are and the team that is trailing will choose first.

And Hewett, you're trailing just slightly here at the midpoint, so you're going to choose from one of these four categories tourist attractions.

Know your PS State nicknames and the comments.

Those are the choices they'll choose right after we take a moment to meet all of our students from both Barton Academy and from Hewitt Trust.

Will Middle Garrett, would you begin for us?

Hi, I'm Garrett Phillips and I'm from Mobile and I am on my school's soccer team.

Hi, I'm Gregory.

I'm an eighth grade and I specialize in humanities.

Hi, I'm Sarah Lovelace.

I'm an eighth grade, and I play seven instruments.

Hi, I'm Tillman.

I'm in eighth grade, and my favorite bottled water is Fiji Water.

Hi, I'm Charlie Hall.

I'm in seventh grade and I play soccer.

Hi, I'm Kate Belcher, and I have been here before.

Hi, I'm David Butler, and I'm a hunter and an archer.

Hello, I'm Bentley Buckelew and theoretical physics is my favorite branch of science.

what a coincidence.

Amazing.

That's my favorite, too.

Nice.

Cash.

Did you get any money for plugging your water?

No, money.

Just did that because you're loyal?

Yes.

Very good.

And what's your favorite instrument to play, Sarah?

Probably oboe.

Oboe.

All the things we have in common are just mind boggling.

Have you decided to address well, which of the four categories you want to play first in the Lightning Round?

We have we would like to play Know your PS, know your keys.

Once I start asking questions, you'll have 60 seconds and you're going to have these answers.

And all answers begin with Guess what?

P You're right.

You're right out of the gate.

Here we go.

Smallest member of the flute family, Piccolo Temple of Athena on the Acropolis Parthenon plant used by the ancient Egyptians as their primary writing materials, mischievous fairy.

And in Shakespeare's a midsummer Night's Dream Skip plant native to Mexico and is used widely as a decoration at Christmas flat, treeless plain in South America.

Savanna, Skip Mendel used this plant in his genetics research, please.

That's right.

Instrument used on a submarine to observe events on the surface.

Skip title for a king of ancient Egypt.

Ferrero ground that is permanently frozen permafrost.

That's right.

Going back to mischievous fairy in Shakespeare's a midsummer Night's Dream Plant, native to Mexico and is used widely as a decoration at Christmas Pine Tree.

Nope, it's poinsettia and a flat, treeless plain in South America is called a pampas, and a periscope is used to go up and look on what's on the surface of the water.

All right.

We're going to come over to you, Barton Academy.

You're leading here at the midpoint.

You're going to choose two of our categories that remain and we'll play those.

What would you like to do, Sarah or Gretta or any of you?

What are you thinking of?

State nicknames.

All right.

And the other two abstractions.

Very good.

Let's do state nicknames first.

60 seconds.

When I begin to ask you questions, you're going to name the state identified with each nickname.

Here we go.

The Bluegrass State, Kentucky, Cornhusker State, Iowa.

It's Nebraska, Volunteer State.

Virginia.

It's Tennessee.

Buckeye State.

Ohio.

That's right.

Magnolia State.

Mississippi.

That's right.

Show me State.

Get Lone Star State.

Texas.

That's right.

First state.

Delaware.

That's right.

Sunshine State, Florida.

Golden State, California.

That's correct.

You skipped the show Me State.

Got plenty of time Organ.

It is Missouri.

You got you.

Did you get the Lone Star State?

You got that one.

So we're done.

Did a good job with that.

Well done.

Plenty of time left.

And I think you got eight or nine of those.

Correct.

Was the other choice tourist attraction, Sarah, is that right?

Very good.

When we begin asking these questions, you'll have 60 seconds given two tourist attractions.

Name the state where you can find them.

Simple enough.

Sounds simple, doesn't it?

This is simple.

If you've got the answers in front of you.

Gettysburg National Military Park and the Liberty Bell.

Philadelphia or Pennsylvania State.

Pennsylvania.

That's right.

In Mount Vernon.

Historic Williamsburg, Virginia.

Glacier National Park.

Little Bighorn.

National Battlefield.

Washington.

It's Montana, Churchill Downs and Mammoth Cave, New Mexico.

Kentucky is the answer.

Space Needle in Mount Rainier, Washington.

Diamondhead.

And Waikiki Beach.

Hawaii.

Hawaii.

That's right.

Augusta National Golf Club.

In the world of Coca-Cola, Georgia.

That's right.

Niagara Falls in West Point, New York.

That's right.

Golden Gate Bridge in Disneyland, California.

That's right.

And the Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak, Colorado.

Colorado is correct.

Well done.

You didn't skip any.

And you got most of them right.

Well done.

We're going to come back to you here at Trussville.

And I know you're excited to play the last category, which is the comics in 60 seconds.

You're going to identify these characters from the comics.

You ready, Bailey?

Yes.

Here we go.

Character known as the Man of Steel.

Superman.

That's right.

The bird in Peanuts.

What's luck?

That's right.

Characters known as the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin.

That's right.

Character who loves spinach pie.

That's right.

Superhero whose real name is Diana Prince.

Wonder.

Wonder Woman.

That's right.

A superhero whose real identity is Peter Parker.

Spider-Man piano player and Peanuts.

Skip All righty.

Billy Baston uses his magical, this magical word to become a superhero.

Shazam is correct.

Family that lives in Bedrock Flintstones.

That's right.

And Bruce Banner turns into this giant green skinned.

Say again, Hulk?

That's correct.

Did you skip one?

Yes.

Seven piano player and Peanuts.

Linus, You have time.

Linus Schroeder is the piano player.

Schroeder is the piano player in Peanuts.

Well, those were fun categories.

Both teams did a good job.

And now for the remaining time we have in the program, in the remaining time we have is about seven and a half minutes.

We're going to just answer questions, each one worth 20 points.

So if you're a little bit behind, you can catch up now and no bonus questions.

You buzz in answer, we move on.

Are you ready?

What?

Title character of an ancient Greek play gouges his eye out after realizing Oedipus.

Oedipus is correct.

Sarah.

Next, the Canticle five was the name given to the victims of what serial killer who was active in the White Chapel District of London in the late 19th century.

The Ripper Jack the Ripper is right, Gretta.

What name was given to the short hammer used as a weapon by Thor Meunier?

That's correct.

Empress Matilda was the first woman to take the throne.

Protagonist No, let me finish.

The question I didn't see who answered.

Was that Kieran Hewitt That was over there.

We're coming.

Hewitt This is yours.

Empress Matilda was the first woman to take the throne of what country in which is today ruled by Charles the third?

Yes.

England.

England is right, everybody.

Tahiti is part of the French region.

Of what group of over a thousand islands whose names cache French Polynesia.

That is the right answer.

Next, what Chilean poet wrote a collection of elemental odes as well as 20 love poems and a song of despair.

What poet was that?

Yes.

Bentley.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Nope.

Anyone else?

Pablo Neruda is the answer.

The rotation of the Earth was demonstrated by Leon Fuoco Using what?

Simple harmonic oscillator?

Bentley Pendulum Pendulum is correct.

After claiming to be the sun and moon seven, McCall rips off the arm of one of the hero twins.

In the mythology of what culture?

Whose cities include an ancient male.

Yes, that's correct.

Mayan is the right answer.

Next Queen and United England with what country?

Where Robert the Bruce defended Edinburgh and Virginia and is Garret Netherlands.

Nope, that's incorrect.

You don't answer what you got Bentley Ireland?

No, it's Scotland.

Scotland is what we wanted.

The last judgment is found in what chapel?

The ceiling of which was painted by Michelangelo.

Which one is it, Greta?

Sistine Sistine Chapel is the right one.

What founding father who proposed the Albany plan tied a key to a Kate and Sarah Benjamin Franklin.

Ben Franklin's right.

That's the Bayer process extracts what element from the or bauxite Where is then Bentley moron?

Nope.

I'm going to finish it for you, Barton Where it undergoes the whole Herod process for its use in soda cans and namesake oil.

What is that, Sarah?

Aluminum.

Aluminum is correct.

In what city?

The second largest in Oklahoma and the birthplace of Route 66 is the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street Located.

And I don't see who but Cass Tulsa.

Tulsa is correct.

Paper and pencil for a fun math question rounded to the nearest hundredth.

If an object weighs 50 kilograms on Earth, what would it weigh on the surface of the moon?

Whether gravity is a sixth of the Earth's?

Yes.

Bentley 8.17.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Who else has an answer?

Do you have an answer?

Barton Academy.

Sarah 30 kilograms.

It's 8.338.33 kilograms is what we want it.

Let's move on.

What?

Actor and singer was part of the boy band in sync before his solo career blew up with songs like Mirrors and Hard Cash.

Justin Timberlake.

Justin Timberlake is correct.

Next to the Seascape Dito Building Carthage is by what British artist who depicted a locomotive on a bridge in the painting?

Rain, steam and speed.

Who is that?

Is yes.

Greta Smith.

No.

Hewitt Do you have an answer looking for the artist?

Turner J.M.W.

Turner Next, the Carib River flows by what geological feature which originates atop the iron tip.

We in Venezuela and is the highest waterfall in the world.

What is it called?

Bentley.

Niagara Falls.

No, it's not Niagara.

What do you have?

Cash.

Angel Falls.

Angel Falls is right.

Anger over Operation Blue Star led to the assassination of what?

Indian Prime minister at the temple of Ahmed Star by her Sikh bodyguards.

Anyone?

The answer is Indira Gandhi.

Indira Gandhi, The ship star of the West, was prevented from bringing supplies to what fort in South Carolina, where the first shots of the Civil War and cash bull run.

Nope, that's incorrect.

You're dead.

It's the first shots fired of the Civil War.

Do you know that Sumter?

Sumter is correct.

Fort Sumter is right.

Well done, Charlie.

Next Prussian blue is created from iron.

And what poisonous iron found in Greta?

Let me know.

I'll finish it for you.

What poisonous iron found in cherry pits.

What is.

What is that called?

Bentley.

Cyanide.

Cyanide is right.

Couple of minutes left.

In what country were 3000 pair of shoes owned by Imelda, the wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled from the from Manila.

What country is it?

Bentley?

Syria?

Nope.

Philippines.

Philippines is right.

The shooting at the Oak Corral occurred in Tombstone, a city in which western state, which was the site of a court case involving Ernesto Miranda Yes.

Cash.

California.

Nope.

That's incorrect.

Sure you want to take a shot?

Yes.

Bentley, Nevada.

It's Arizona, but it's always worth taking a shot in what Emily Bronte novel is the thrush Cross Grange.

An estate near the title home of Heath Cliff.

And it is Sarah Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights is correct.

The Blind man Pew appears in What novel about Jim Hawkins and Long John Silvers Journey, a work by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Anybody got an answer to that?

Yes.

Cash.

Old man in the sea.

No.

Hewitt You have one.

We wanted Treasure Island, a figure known as the Babushka lady appears in an Anthony Zapruder video of what event in which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the 35th president of the United States.

The assassination of JFK.

That's right, Charlie.

Well done.

Let's do one, maybe two more questions.

A Peruvian mummy inspired the central figure of what Edvard Munch painting that shows a man performing the title.

Sarah The Scream.

The Scream is right.

Last question, quickly.

Why ruler won the Battle of Milvian Bridge after seeing a cross in the sky, leading him to become the first Christian Roman emperor.

Who was that?

And yes, Garret Constantine.

Constantine Constantine the Great is correct.

Later Button's down, time is gone.

That 30 minutes or so went by pretty fast, didn't it?

Well-played by both of you.

Both teams from Barton Academy and from Hewitt Trussville Middle School and Barton Academy.

You come out on top in this particular round, but it was very close, you guys, you young ladies and young men and lady played very well from Hewitt as well.

We thank you for watching our program today and we'll see you next time on the Alabama Scholars Bowl.